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Red Velvet Cake

There’s nothing that says Christmas Time in the South like a Red Velvet cake. Made from the same goodness that powers Santa’s suit itself,
it’s the centerpiece of your Christmas party, that one dessert that everyone will leave talking about

MongoDB
has a very rich regular expression (regex) interface. Regex is available in many of
the places that ordinary character strings are accepted. While convenient to use,
I had some questions about how MongoDB regex performance stacks up to regex performance in other
(SQL) Databases.

The Intel Sandybridge i7-2620M processor is capable of overheating Linux

I’ve been plagued for the last few months with problems with my
Intel Graphics
on my
Lenovo T420.
I originally bought this laptop specifically because of traditionally great Linux support
for Thinkpad hardware. I had the option of Intel vs Nvidia graphics, and I chose Intel
because
Gnome3
was reputed to work better with the Intel graphics.

This laptop has pretty impressive
specs
An excerpt from
/proc/cpuinfo
on Linux

I had a heck of a time getting a Rails + Unicorn + nginx deployment going on Fedora 17. The problem was, I could get it running using TCP sockets but not using unix sockets. I loosely followed these instructions for deploying a Rails 3.2 app but kept having problems with the unix sockets.